Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 29, 2005 03:13 PM
Bash (sic) is a relative whipper-snapper and was certainly not around with the first version of Unix, or for many, many years. Just to be pedantic.
Maybe we should use fortran for all those numeric scripts that sysadmins use<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
The original script shows exactly the philosophy of what a sysadmin needs in a language. Just a simple and quick tool to link together the executables, that an admin uses, to make something powerful which does exactly what is needed. You can't buy that, no-body sells the tool that suits your exact needs. Well, at least that's the opinion of an old fart like me.
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Re:Possibly use a newer language?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 29, 2005 03:13 PMMaybe we should use fortran for all those numeric scripts that sysadmins use<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
The original script shows exactly the philosophy of what a sysadmin needs in a language. Just a simple and quick tool to link together the executables, that an admin uses, to make something powerful which does exactly what is needed. You can't buy that, no-body sells the tool that suits your exact needs. Well, at least that's the opinion of an old fart like me.
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